If you like easy summer desserts and cocktails, my strawberry and gin ice cream is for you. It tastes like summer holidays. Inspired by my recent trip to Italy where there almost as many gelateria as there are coffee shops, gelato is everyone's favourite summer indulgence. There's no shortage of flavours either. From peach bellini,

Recipe for caramelised pineapple with green Sichuan peppercorn ice-cream by Victor Liong from Lee Ho Fook restaurant in Melbourne.

Step-by-step method for making Cheat’s lime, coconut and rum ice cream yourself.

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for honey ice-cream with linseed wafers and walnut crumble by Penfolds Magill Estate, Adelaide.

Sweet and sour orange meets sweet nutty almond and floral lavender in a variety of temperatures and textures in this fun dessert. Though nothing in this is hard to make on its own, there are a lot of components. Thankfully many can be prepared in advance for an easy assembly and serving. I like to make everything but the marshmallow topping up a day or two in advance.

This clever walnut ice cream recipe from Jeremy Chan relies entirely on the fat inside the walnuts to eventually set the ice cream, giving the final result an incredibly pure and intense walnut flavour.